Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advance. But they are only one aspect of land reform. Two years ago the late idealistic Prince Gioacchino Ruffo of Naples sold plots from his estate, at nominal prices, to former tenants. Today, like Scafarella's peasants, they too break arid, gullied soil with picks. They have no cash for better tools, insecticides and fertilizers. Without these necessities they can reap only four bushels of wheat per hectare. The only hunger that has been satisfied has been their hunger for land...
...high-pressure horse factory, which costs $500,000 a year to operate, earned a whopping $1,269,710 in purses last year; the year before it won $1,402,436, a runaway record. Says Ben Jones: "It's like running a grocery store ... I love to hear that cash register ring...
Tricks. Faced with slumping sales, many other manufacturers were trying similar tricks. They were well aware that the drop in buying was caused less by a lack of customers' cash than a stubborn rebellion against high prices. Though businessmen grumbled about recession, it was still the most prosperous recession the U.S. had ever had. Consumers' dollars could still be lured out for the right product at the right price...
Sanctons found several hundred dollars in checks, money orders and cash. Mary, who moved in as circulation manager, found only 145 paid-up subscriptions; others were in arrears as far back as 1896. (Wrote one delinquent: "I'd been pleading with old John for half a century to stop sending me his paper...
...president of Chicago's Quarrie Corp., he helped sell a million copies of the Book of Knowledge. At Grosset, it was he who started Bantam Books. O'Connor thinks that the potential market for Wonder Books (which have hard, washable-plastic covers) is 100 million copies. To cash in on it, he expects to increase the list of 16 titles (including Mother Goose, Peter Rabbit and The Three Little Kittens) by adding new books every month...